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Anonymous

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How to retrieve data from combobox?

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
October 18, 2010
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Hey guys!

I'm doing an order form, where the user can input his contact information and then choose a product in a dropdown menu.

Untill now, I just gave the dynamic text fields a variable and used this code:

on (release) {
     form.loadVariables("order.php", "POST");
}

But now that I added a combobox, it has no "varible field" - how do I send the selected parameter in the combobox to the php-file as well?

Thank you!!

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Correct answer kglad

your combobox has a selectedItem property you can use:

var yourcomboboxselectedItem:String=cb.selectedItem.data; // if you combobx has instance name cb and you want retrieve the data property

kglad

Community Expert

try:

on (release) {

form.somevariable=cb.selectedItem.data     
form.loadVariables(order.php, POST);
}

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Anonymous

Man, I still can't get it to work, allthough I did what you wrote.

Here's an illustration showing how I set it up:

http://www.emillyngbo.dk/flashproblem.jpg

Here's a link to my test page: www.emillyngbo.dk/email/email.swf

Also, this is my php-file, where you can see I use "somevariable" to try and target the Combobox:

$sendTo = "myemail@email.com";
$subject = "My Flash site reply";
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";

$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = $_POST["message"] . $_POST["name"] . $_POST["somevariable"];
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

kglad

Community Expert

is send a true button or a movieclip button? does you combobox have instance name cb?

if send is a true button and cb is the instance name of your combobox use:

form.loadVariables("order.php","POST");

kglad

Correct answer

Community Expert

your combobox has a selectedItem property you can use:

var yourcomboboxselectedItem:String=cb.selectedItem.data; // if you combobx has instance name cb and you want retrieve the data property

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Anonymous

Thank you for your answer.

Sorry it took me this long to get back, but I still have a problem.

Where do I put that piece of code, for it to work, when the button is pressed?

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